Project Number

1595

Project Title

GpENI: Great Plains Environment for Network Innovation

Technical Contacts

Principal Investigator: James P.G. Sterbenz, The University of Kansas, ​jpgs@ittc.ku.edu
Co-PI: Deep Medhi, University of Missouri – Kansas City, ​dmedhi@umkc.edu
Co-PI: Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, ​byrav@cse.unl.edu
Co-PI: Caterina Scolio, Kansas State University, ​caterina@ksu.edu
Co-PI: Don Gruenbacher, Kansas State University, ​grue@ksu.edu
Co-PI: Greg Monaco at Great Plains Network, ​greg@greatplains.net
Co-PI: Jeff Verrant, Ciena, ​jverrant@ciena.com
Co-PI: Cort Buffington, KanREN, ​cort@kanren.net
Co-PI: TBD, Qwest
Co-PI: David Hutchison, Lancaster University, ​dh@comp.lancs.ac.uk
Co-PI: Bernhard Platter, ETH Zürich, ​plattner@tik.ee.ethz.ch
Co-I: Joseph B. Evans, The University of Kansas, ​evans@eecs.ku.edu
Co-I: Rick McMullen, The University of Kansas, ​mcmullend@ku.edu
Co-I: Baek-Young Choi, University of Missouri – Kansas City, ​choiby@umkc.edu
Co-I: Jim Archuleta, Ciena, ​jarchule@ciena.com
Co-I: Andrew Scott, Lancaster University, ​acs@comp.lancs.ac.uk

Participating Organizations

The University of Kansas – Lawrence, KS
Kansas State University – Manhattan, KS
University of Missouri – Kansas City, MO
University of Nebraska – Lincoln, NE
Great Plains Network
Ciena Governement Solutions – Des Moines, IA
Qwest Government Services - Fairfax, VA
KanREN – Lawrence, KS
MOREnet – Columbia, MO
Lancaster University, United Kingdom
ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Scope

1. Lead the integration of the Princeton control framework onto the GpENI testbed.

2. Enable backbone connection (Internet2/NLR) supporting end-to-end VLAN connections into the GpENI testbed.

3. Make GpENI infrastructure running Princeton control framework available to external researchers over VLAN connections by the end of year 1.

4. Present GpENI integration and operational status to the various control frameworks selected in Spiral 1 through active participation in GEC meetings and the appropriate working groups

Current Capabilities

Milestones

MilestoneDate(GpENI: Testbed available for limited external research)?

• 04 Apr 2009 – ​Million node GENI (Seattle) is deployed on GpENI PlanetLab nodes

MilestoneDate(GpENI: Delivery of component manager ICD for Ciena Core Director switch)?
MilestoneDate(GpENI: Contribute to GENI outreach)? on-going
MilestoneDate(GpENI: 2.a new geniwrapper)?
MilestoneDate(GpENI: 2.b study DCN in GpENI)?
MilestoneDate(GpENI: 2.c tools)?
MilestoneDate(GpENI: 2.d access)?
MilestoneDate(GpENI: 2.e VINI)?
MilestoneDate(GpENI: 2.f MAX)?
MilestoneDate(GpENI: 2.g deploy DCN in GpENI)?
MilestoneDate(GpENI: 2.h 2nd Ciena switch)?
MilestoneDate(GpENI: 2.i web-portal)?
MilestoneDate(GpENI: 2.j federate)?
MilestoneDate(GpENI: 2.k XORP and VINI)?
MilestoneDate(GpENI: 2.l DCN GpENI MAX)?
MilestoneDate(GpENI: 2.m security)?
MilestoneDate(GpENI: 2.n outreach)?

Project Technical Documents

Link to GpENI wiki maintained by KU ​https://wiki.ittc.ku.edu/gpeni

Quarterly Status Reports

4Q08 Status Report​
1Q09 Status Report​
2Q09 Status Report​ copy downloaded 07-08-2009

or ​Link to Status Reports on GpENI wiki

Spiral 1 Connectivity

The GpENI network is formed from the Great Plains Network which has equipment co-located at an Internet2 POP in Kansas City, MO. The connections between the DWDM equipment, the availability of the 10GBE switch and the connections to the I2 transport network are to be determined. Contact James Sterbenz for status updates.

The Ciena switches are scheduled for acquisition over the three year period of performance (spiral-1 plus 2 option years). The initial switch to be purchased in spiral-1 is the Ciena Core Director located at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL).

GPO Liaison System Engineer

Christopher Small

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